Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

Claremont McKenna College’s former Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid engaged in false reporting practices that went beyond inflating SAT numbers, misrepresenting statistics on ACT scores, class ranking and application numbers, according to a report published by O’Melveny & Meyers LLP.

Financial Aid 40

Financial Aid Alumni Faculty Admissions 40

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Over the course of a decade, from fall 2011 to fall 2021, the number of high school graduates attending community colleges decreased by more than 2.3 “Let’s take that chance to inform them about the admissions process, broader financial aid, other programs we have.”

Community College 111

Community College Budget and Finance Management Financial Aid Banking 111

EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

So this was, we were trying to prevent predatory practice, especially when it came to student recruitment, enrollment or the disbursement of federal financial aid. Okay, fast forward two decades, you get yourself to 2011. So 2011, we have online enablement vendors is actually the term EAB was using back in 2011.

Management 52

Management Recruitment Higher Education IT 52

EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

So this was, we were trying to prevent predatory practice, especially when it came to student recruitment, enrollment or the disbursement of federal financial aid. Okay, fast forward two decades, you get yourself to 2011. So 2011, we have online enablement vendors is actually the term EAB was using back in 2011.

Management 52

Management Recruitment Higher Education IT 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

This success story underscores the crucial role of technology in not only supporting administrative functions but also in driving institutional growth. And so they’re really trying to rein in that market, and it is possible that they will rescind the guidance from 2011 that allows revenue sharing. “ This changes education.”

Computers and Informational Technology 52

Computers and Informational Technology Budget and Finance Management Development and Fund Raising Higher Education 52

SRHE

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The proposed reforms will remove banks from the equation and return financial aid administration to public institutions, as the US did under Obama’s 2011 reforms to federal student loans. However, the anticipated efficiency from bank involvement has not materialised, with only 55% of borrowers keeping up with payments.

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Government Banking Financial Aid Higher Education 86

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Education Department’s recent guidance expanding the definition of what it means to be a “third-party servicer” for institutions that receive federal financial aid funds put online program management companies, or OPMs, squarely in the center of the bull’s-eye. 1, rather than immediately as of Feb.

Financial Aid 88

Financial Aid Nonprofit Organizations Recruitment Administration 88

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

Administration 82

Administration Higher Education Federal Government Research 82

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

That 2011 guidance enabled the emergence over the last decade of an entire industry of companies known as online program management firms, or OPMs. Those happened virtually on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, with several dozen speakers speeding through the allowed three-minute statements.

Recruitment 100

Recruitment Management Higher Education Student Financial Aid 100

Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

From 2011 onward, the College Meltdown was most visible with for-profit colleges and community colleges, but other non-elite schools and for-profit businesses were also affected. HEI also recognized this problem in 2017, something the Trump Administration failed to notice and made worse with its rosy Census projections.

Federal Government 72

Federal Government Financial Aid Higher Education Government 72

University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

The most gracious financial aid packages for int’l students International students enrollment boomed back in 2023, but as academic and living costs threaten to pull students to other competitive countries, it’s good to know which U.S. dominated topped the list, offering financial aid packages worth over $75,000.

Financial Aid 110

Financial Aid Higher Education Faculty Community College 110

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“That will provide important transparency into what’s going on,” said Robert Shireman, who worked in the Education Department during the Obama administration and is now a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank. That includes contracts that manage student loans or run financial aid operations.

Education 107

Education Financial Aid Recruitment Industry 107

The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Diversity of faculty and administration. Colleges or universities shouldn’t just try to increase the diversity of the student body but of their faculty and administration. She joined the foundation in 2011 with a strong performance measurement, research, and evaluation background. Ensure they are also diverse.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Education Financial Aid Consulting 52

Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Doing all of that at a time when the Biden administration, to its great credit, is working diligently to hold predatory schools accountable would be risky. Department of Education to investigate Keiser’s schools, which have received billions in taxpayer-funded student financial aid.

Government 40

Government Recruitment Education Administration 40